Ken Burns

On "The Vietnam War."

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

The PBS series by Burns focuses on soldiers' stories, with scant attention to the immense number of Vietnamese civilians who suffered and died.

The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.

Watching Ken Burns' latest epic with a historian who has written extensively about the war.

For a fight at Thanksgiving, bring that one up.

A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.

I, a historian of the Vietnam War, have watched the Turning Point treatment. I have some notes.

In the late 1960s, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the best music you’ve never heard.

Why rock overtook every other genre to define our understanding of America at war.

The unraveling of this long-buried atrocity is forging a path toward reconciliation.

Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature.

In 1903, a doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. The first coast-to-coast road trip in history took 63 days and cost $8,000.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.

Watching the Ken Burns series on the U.S. and the Holocaust and thinking about American folk music.

A lively defense of narrative history and the lived experience that informs historical writing.

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.

A post-9/11 veteran novelist explores a post-Vietnam literary soiree gone bad, and finds timeless lessons about a contentious and still-evolving genre.

What would it mean to define the Civil War as a necessary and crucial final step in the long, even more tragic history of slavery in America?